Last night I was just going through the higher numbered channels and several
of them seem to be running a commercial break and nothing else on streaming video, even though it says the channel is not available. One has the AD
advert on Specsavers with the bloke with his parcel, and behind the normal
and ad sound is a digital sound, a bit like the sort of loading sound of a 1980s home computer loading from tape.
A few days ago I encountered one on one of the adult channels but it was merely a video promo on the internet about how their girls go much further
on the online subscription channel.
I also heard on some channels some warnings about Offcom may not be able to control any video you were about to view.
Its all getting a bit of a mess really.
Brian

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On 02/12/2022 05:25 pm, Brian Gaff wrote:

Last night I was just going through the higher numbered channels and several of them seem to be running a commercial break and nothing else on streaming video, even though it says the channel is not available. One has the AD advert on Specsavers with the bloke with his parcel, and behind the normal and ad sound is a digital sound, a bit like the sort of loading sound of a 1980s home computer loading from tape.
A few days ago I encountered one on one of the adult channels but it was merely a video promo on the internet about how their girls go much further
on the online subscription channel.
I also heard on some channels some warnings about Offcom may not be able to control any video you were about to view.

I saw that warning a few days ago. It was on a channel where there were
various feeds to choose from - channels which purported to specialise on
old TV or films, etc. A bit like Pluto TV and similar.

I'd be surprised if Ofcom had no jurisdiction over them. They must have
some over the "adult" channels on Sky and Freeview.

Its all getting a bit of a mess really.

The 2002 crash of OnDigital / ITV Digital, which led to the opportunist asset-grab by the BBC, was not handled well by the government of the
day. Allocation of channels (and consideration of applications for
chaannels) should have remained an official function.

But then, ITV should never have been given control of DTTV in the first
place. Just as if Granada and Carlton hadn't been given enough privilege
over the decades.

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